Science has provided an increasingly clear picture of the inherent limits in human visual perception and memory that can lead to errors in eyewitness identification. While the law enforcement ...
When Eric Anderson was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2010, police and prosecutors built their case primarily on a single eyewitness identification of a suspect wearing a mask. Anderson was ...
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that defendants can use expert witnesses to explain the potential flaws in eyewitness identification. This decision reversed a Boone County man's conviction for indecent ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes — including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses, though, is that those mistakes can cost innocent people their ...